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[Xoom Themes and Apps] craig4855:
I am trying this on a XOOM.

Copilot will not load
[Xoom Themes and Apps] erikjonpeterson:
iGO works, but the highest resolution is 800x400 so the nav screen is small. I am using the moto higher resolution version 8.4.2.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] craig4855:
I called ALK yesterday. Their support staff told me that they weren't aware oof any device that had Honeycomb. They have not, yet, started testing.

How can you be a developer for Android, and not have Honeycomb to test with?

The tech checked with his manager. They NEVER heard of the Motorola XOOM!!!!!

Scary
[Xoom Themes and Apps] Deleted member 5132789:
I have it installed and working. It auto installed when I entered gmail account.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] craig4855:
This doesn't even show up as one of my apps, even though I purchased North America
[Xoom Themes and Apps] cellfreak:
I'm running Copilot on my Xoom with no problems. I only have one state loaded.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] robrowald:
I'm running copilot on my zoom as well. All of North America loaded.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] kiwiruss:
copilot installed ok on my xoom

copilot installed ok on my xoom.

Im at work and havent been outside to see if the gps works. Currently no signal inside here, but thats no surprise.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] drhill:
Do you have the name of that person? What they told you is completely inaccurate.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] epakrat75:
You know that for a fact, how? (I want to believe you over the alternative) :confused:
[Xoom Themes and Apps] drhill:
Lets just leave it at "100%" not true. :)

Any more information you can remember about the call would be helpful.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] jstersd:
How did you guys get CoPilot? It only shows up in the web android market and says that it's not compatible with Xoom?
[Xoom Themes and Apps] robrowald:
I sideloaded it.had it on my phone beforehand
[Xoom Themes and Apps] jstersd:
Does it scale well with the Xoom sideloaded?
[Xoom Themes and Apps] jstersd:
Hmmm. I installed on my EVO so I can sideload. How do I find the apk on my EVO? I downloaded Astro and did a search and nothing came up.
[Epic 4G General] deisel:
When using my camera it shows the gps searching signal
[Epic 4G General] daddymikey1975:
it does this to add a geo location tag to your photo.

IIRC there's an option to turn it off somewhere but i'm not sure where.
[Epic 4G General] styckx:
That's no glitch. That's Samsungs new always on searching for your location to embed in the photos EXIF data. You used to be able to disable this in the camera but in Froyo they removed that option.

If you take a pic with GPS on or location using wireless network enabled you're giving away your GPS coordinates of where the picture was taken everytime you post a photo taken with this camera.

GPS off

Wireless locations on

GPS Coordinates fully visible to anyone (blacked out here)
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] psufan5:
Already tired of the big white bar at the top. Anyone working on a nice black one? :)
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] NguyenHuu:
i hope so too, love the gingerbread look from my nexus.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] synergye:
I worked on one all of yesterday evening/night (broke my ankle), and eventually got it to push without issue. After work this evening I'll be uploading it for Dev's or very knowledgeable users who know how to backup and adb recover to use.

Edit: The bar is a black/ grey gradient to still see the text. I haven't yet messed with xml's to try and change the text colors.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] synergye:
Here's Revision 1...AKA Tacky Edition

Please see this thread for my Gingerbread theme: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=974112
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] NguyenHuu:
thanks, can you post a screenshot of how it looks with the black/grey bar with the current icons?

since this is pretty much first steps of theming, maybe we can pull the icons off of gingerbread framework, those are all "optimized" for black status bar hehe.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] synergye:
Current screenshot is attached.

I will say that I've yet to push the new notification text colors (new services.jar), but will be testing that shortly with gingerbread icons.

I just got my hands on hdpi gingerbread icons, so I'll be testing during the day, and I'll upload it tonight (PST).

I'm planning on making a new topic and a shell script to run on the phone (or .bat on a pc) to make installation easier, and I've been messing with transparencies a bit as well, so expect a few different uploads.

Isn't the cutting edge fun?!
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] mp2ning:
@synergye

How different would it be to push the file to the phone SDcard using USB mass storage and then use root explorer from the phone to move the file to the framework folder?

I tried this way and soft bricked! Don't know what I did wrong!

Any insight?
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] synergye:
Are you deodexed? Something I forgot to put in the post above, which I believe is needed to push my deodexed framework file.

I recommend waiting until this evening(maybe sooner for my gingerbread notification bar and services.jar. Im also going to fix my instructions above to say deodexing required.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] psufan5:
Nice! Once this has the white text im copying this over :)
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] synergye:
The new theme now has a white clock, and some gingerbread thrown in: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=974112
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] k0sun7eash3d:
any chance we can get the AT&T carrier logo removed as well? I love the black, but that weird gap would probably drive me neurotic after a bit.
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] synergye:
I'm planning on removing it next, after adding notification transparency, and doing a bit more overall theming (thinking browser, etc).

Please note that I now have a topic open for this theme: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=974112
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] NguyenHuu:
thanks synergye!
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] mp2ning:
Yes I forgot to mention that I am running the ADEO Rom!
[Atrix 4G Themes and Apps] quikmeister:
Which wallpaper is that in the image on the left? Can you upload?
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] strooja:
Hi guys, hope someone can tell what is exactly with my phone/display.

Long story short – phone fell directly on display, absolutely perfect landing without any rebound, display went nut. Dropped it on back, fixed the problem.

4 days later, display went crazy again and remains broken.

Symptoms: black, grey, coloured lines.

What I can say from usage – they react more on dark colours. If I’m in white background, everything is absolutely fine, sometimes some line appear. As soon as it comes to grey or black, they go wild. They like move for second or two, and then settle, as you can see in the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqhtWIOAAGU

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqhtWIOAAGU[/YOUTUBE]

LONG STORY LONG

Seven days ago, it dropped from 1 meter height, and it landed on it’s display, so directly it didn’t bounce not a tiny bit, it just got like glued to the surface. The same moment I knew it’s not good, and I was right.

Display couldn’t get out of sleep mode, when I presed power button I only got a bit of visibility, I could see start button, but if turned it on/off (sleep/wake up) couple of times, display would have normal brightnes… BUT, there were some dark dynamic lines over the screen, as soon as pic moved, they would appear, on static pic, only few would remain. Numerous resets didn’t bring any results, keeping it off without battery, no results either…

Frustrated (It has been like month or two since I’ve got this device), I decided to give a try to traditional Serbian method – hit the electronic device to get it working. I included some brains, so I dropped phone, on the other side (on the back), from some 30 cm height. It worked like a charm! Everything worked absolutely fine!

I could only think of situation that some display contacts must have pulled out a bit, so hitting it back, made them get back into their slots.

And everything was like before… at least for 4 days 

Then, without any trigger event, lines came back, and they’re here to stay!

Hard reset, nope. Reset, nope. Dropping it on the back, nope.

What I can say from usage – they react more on dark colors. If I’m in white background, everything is absolutely fine, sometimes some line appear. As soon as it comes to gray or black, they go wild. They like move for second or two, and then settle, as you can see in the video.

There is no one here to make good diagnostics, HTC is like white raven in my country, so can anyone suggest what to do, get new flex cable, get new display?

I am considering opttion to open it up myself, and check are all connectors firmly in place.

Your suggestions?
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] strooja:
If anyone experiences anything similar - just reset the flex (flat) cable, everything will be like new :)
[Xoom General] android_geoff:
i made this thread to show an easy way to put a movie on your xoom without any work no need to set the resolution or anything

open program

put in disk

select xoom preset

click go thats it

i posted up a video of the quality

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5dFFQRp08Q
[Xoom General] dino325:
Does it convert other files as well? Ie, avi's, mpeg's, etc...
[Xoom General] keitht:
Looks promising. Giving it a try.
[Xoom General] dino325:
Answered my own question
[Xoom General] android_geoff:
im not sure im new at adding videos to android devices but if you download the software theres a manual in pdf form that explains everything it can do.
[Xoom General] NeutronBomb:
I have about 60 DVD's ripped so far using this same program. One thing to note though, The movies are a bit grainy when you do the preset Xoom setting. You might want to go into video settings and up the bitrate to 1750 or so if you really want your movie to look amazing on the Xoom.

Avatar at 1000 bitrate = meh

Avatar at 1750 bitrate = nice

Also you'll probably want to get AnyDVD. It breaks encryption and copy protection so that you can *ahem* backup your disks. It even fixes the disks that try to use false headers and what not to make the movie play out of order when you rip it. I've been using the 21 day trial version myself.
[Xoom General] keitht:
My first try at converting a 720p mkv high profile video is ok. It is not full screen like the youtube video indicates using the Xoom setting. The sound however is much louder compared to using the free handbrake application.

The application itself needs some work on the GUI. It is not very intuitive. Also, when it is running, it causes my computer to not be as responsive. Handbrake does not do that.

This is only my first test so results may vary with other files I try.
[Xoom General] android_geoff:
if you want better quality next to the xoom preset click modify and you can change the resolution and bitrate from a 1000 to 1750 like the previous post said. if a dvd has 2 versions there will be 2 different movies at the top one is for widescreen and 1 for fullscreen
[Xoom General] bwcorvus:
What are you file sizes. Like example a 90 minute movie, 120 minute movie, 150 minute movie, and a 180 minute movie.
[Xoom General] android_geoff:
night at the roxbury was 600mb and thats 82 mins

but then inception which is 2 1/2 hours long is 1.1 gb

so maybe 500 mb for every 1 hour?
[Xoom General] kenyu73:
Grr.. I did a DvD with the default Xoom preset and the file is 1.2 gb and the audio is off(ie: not in sync).... did I just sink 9.95 for a blah ripper? :rolleyes:
[Xoom General] dadsterflip:
Hey what's the name of the software for it? Thx
[Xoom General] kenyu73:
DVD Catalyst
[Xoom General] android_geoff:
did you click manage next to the xoom preset and and change the bitrate or audio quality? ive burned 10 movies and all have had no problems whatsover
[Xoom General] thehavock18:
I did not do any dvd ripping but converted 720p mkv files into xoom format using catalyst. Quality was good and the file size dropped from 4.5gb to 1.2. No sync or stuttering issues. Really impressed.

Down side is it took the length of the movie to convert and like one poster said it lags my whole PC down.
[Xoom General] Arun01:
I'm using Total Video Converter & it works great..it does just about any format you can think of !
[Xoom General] dvdcatalyst:
Thanks for the video Geoff, I'm glad you enjoy dvdcat.

Most common (non-DRM) video files, including MKV and ISOs. Just drag&drop them onto the program. If you drag folders, it will filter out the video files. Some MKVs might give some problems due to either having compressed-headers headers enabled (a recent change in MakeMKV, enable "fixmkv" setting in Global Settings > Advanced), or due to an unsupported (at the moment) audio format (truHD/e-ac3). Depending on the source of your MKV's most work though.

If you test-play your files on your PC, don't use Windows Media Player. WMP has sync-issues with MP4 files. if you use Quicktime or VLC, they will play fine.

As for the PC-slowdown, the conversion to h264 video is quite processor-intensive, and the software uses whatever power it can find. The faster the processor, the faster the conversions. If you use a single-core/cpu system, conversions tend to run at about the same speed as the length of the movie (select the xoom-fast profile to speed it up), but if you have a nice Core i7 Quad or 6-core, you can rip a 2 hour movie in about 20 minutes.

To the mods:

I'm not not a spam-bot or signed up to advertise. I just registered to assist people with the questions they have.

To get an idea of my posts, visit DroidForums.net (980 posts) or the B&N Nookboards (243 posts).
[Xoom General] jm9843:
Why not provide an option to lower the priority? It sounds like the application is only usable now if you queue something up to run overnight.
[Xoom General] kenyu73:
I did notice they played better on the Xoom the WMP. Thanks answering the questions!
[Xoom General] dvdcatalyst:
It's there :)

Global Settings (enable "power user" mode) > Conversion > conversion priority.

By default it runs at "Normal" priority.
[Xoom General] dvdcatalyst:
Besides selecting the xoom profile, did you change any other settings in DVD Catalyst, including maybe the output folder location? Don't convert directly to your Xoom or a USB pendrive.

Another possibility is that the avi is bad, incomplete download or something similar. If it gets scanned properly, it should work fine.

Is it just the one avi you are having issues with? Maybe try a different one and see if that works better?
[Xoom General] msmall82:
At least it works when ripping a DVD. It errors when trying to rip from an AVI but works fine from a DVD disk
[Xoom General] dvdcatalyst:
Maybe try a different avi?

besides conflicting software (which you ruled out) the only other reason why an avi conversion would fail is due to something not being right with the avi file.
[Xoom General] msmall82:
Not sure, the AVI played fine on my home PC. I basically copied the AVI to my XOOM and connected the XOOM here at my office. Copied it to my desktop and then tried to convert it. I also brought a DVD that I had created (from the same AVI file) and it works.

Maybe copying the file over to my xoom and then to my desktop somehow screwed it up? Not really sure. But as I said before the AVI files played fine on my home PC. I have no problem using my work PC explicitly for converting my files rather than having to uninstall codecs and such on my home machine.

I'll just have to burn any AVI files I want to put on my XOOM to a DVD disk then copy them onto my work machine and use this app to convert them. The other thing is I tried to remove the borders on this movie (it's collateral with jamie foxx and tom cruise, and it happens to be a letterbox version) and that didn't seem to work either.

But we are making progress. At least I am able to play mp4's finally!!!

Thank you for your quick follow up, it is very much appreciated.
[Xoom General] msmall82:
FYI - I'm a computer engineering major, prob the biggest geek I know, so I'm not completely retarded, so no I'm not converting directly to my Xoom :)
[Xoom General] dvdcatalyst:
:)

I do get quite a few questions from people that do try to eliminate the step of copying it from computer to device by pointing it directly to the device, so I always throw it in. I know we are on XDA here, but still, better safe than sorry.

Anyway, at least you are getting somewhere.

As for the full screen part, please have a look in the Android section on my website. I can't link to it, because I'll get banned, but its pretty easy to find. The *cough* user guide (I was a network admin by trade, and never read them) has a section on that as well, chapter 10 and 11. In short, enable "power user" then in global settings > borders, select "remove from device" and it should work just fine.

Copying the avi to the xoom could have messed it up. While not the same, right now I am fighting with copying a bluray rip I did (2.5GB) to the sdcard I used with my Xoom, and it just keeps failing. I had a 2.5GB file on it before and didn't had issues with it, and now regardless of how I copy it to the sd card, either through the Xoom or using an adapter on my PC, it stops between 200MB and 600MB. I even used different PC's to copy, and still no luck. No idea what is causing iet yet, but it might be related to your scenario.
[Xoom General] msmall82:
Yea I tried the initial border removal setting which indicates it will remove most of the border but still keep the original movie size in-tact. It definitely worked in that the borders were a bit smaller (maybe 1/2 an inch more of actual video). I haven't tried the other settings which indicate it will remove all of the border but I might lose some of the video...guess I will try that next.

But yea it's probably has to do with copying the AVI to my Xoom first. I'm willing to bet if I burn the AVI's directly to DVD and then try ripping them to mp4 that it will work. I am going to burn a few tomorrow and see if I can get your app to convert them. If all works well you will have 10 bucks deposited into your paypal account by COB.
[Xoom General] dvdcatalyst:
(note these options apply to black border removal in general, not just DVD Catalyst)

The default "remove from file" option for removing black borders just removes the letterbox-padding from videos that have it. Most likely your avi's already have that removed, so you wouldn't notice much of a difference.

Then there is "remove from device" which will remove the black padding if it is there, and then it will crop the video to make sure when you view it on your device, it will play in full-screen. This will make you lose parts of the sides of the video.

The "partially remove" setting sits in the middle of these 2. It cuts of half of what is needed to make your video full-screen, but in turn, when you view the file, you end up with black borders as well.

Then there is another option, "stretch" which will remove black padding if it is there, and then stretch the video to make it full-screen.

To make movies full-screen, there are only 2 methods. Either crop and keep the look of the video as intended, which results in losing some parts of the side of the video, or stretch, which keeps the full video portion, but you end up with tall-skinny people.

If you have a look on my website (latest news section) you will find an android app I recently released. This includes a video-player component, which actually lets you change between different playback-modes. If you use the default "remove from file" option, the app will let you switch between crop/stretch etc.

As for the avi's, if you burn them to DVD, or maybe use a pendrive or something like that, it should work just fine.
[Xoom General] msmall82:
In this instance they don't have them removed. I burnt this DVD from an AVI which I'm assuming was originally ripped from the actual letterbox version. So when I ripped it using DVDcatalyst it only partially removed them.

I am going to try the "remove from device" method as I want these movies to use the entire Xoom screen...

Thanks again,
[Xoom General] dvdcatalyst:
You are welcome,

The DVD in this case was a DVD made from an avi that was made from a DVD?
[Xoom General] msmall82:
That's correct.

Removing them from device worked fine. They play in full screen mode with no borders and the movie is still watchable.

Already bought a full version of the software...
[Xoom General] dvdcatalyst:
Thank you,

Let me know if you have any questions.
[Xoom General] okantomi:
Bought it today and love it

Works perfectly. Thanks for a great product.:D
[Xoom General] dvdcatalyst:
Thank you okantomi,

Let me know if you have any questions.
[Xoom General] dvdcatalyst:
You are welcome.

Last year, I spend weeks on troubleshooting sync issues with someone, sending sample clips back and forth, and in the end, it was WMP. On-device, as well as if you use players other than wmp, sync issues are quite rare.
[Xoom General] lacesout:
I use Handbrake. Works fine. Quality is great as well.
[Xoom General] generic.imitation:
lol @ the double negative... so you are a spambot?

j/k thanks for the assist!
[Xoom General] dvdcatalyst:
LOL,

nice find.

It was early. I was more concerned about answering the questions than to check my writing on that note :)
[Xoom General] m3lover1:
Does DVD Catalyst work with bluray discs?
[Xoom General] dvdcatalyst:
Not yet. I do have a beta version that works with (unprotected) blurays, but its a beta version. During testing, about half the ones I tried worked, the other half had issues.
[Xoom General] verusevo:
I have a MAC so i have to use handbrake. But i read elsewhere that this prog can automatically get rid of black bars and make video fullscreen on xoom. Does anyone know if handbrake can do this manually?
[Xoom General] dadsterflip:
I'm using wonder share. Anyone have a setting for resolution to fit the whole screen? I'm trying mp4 format with 1280 x 720 resolution. Anyone have a better settings or formats? Any help would be great. Thx
[Xoom General] John9Tim:
I Google "play DVD movies to XOOM" found a Blog article "Play DVD Movies in Full Screen on Motorola XOOM with High Quality" I have try this way, oh, it's cool. I think you can read it and it can help you.
[Xoom General] Holsum:
for some reason when i set the player screen size in the xoom to 1280 x 800 it is changes on its own. this is really annoying
[Xoom General] dvdcatalyst:
DVD's have a lower resolution than what the XOOM has. While it is possible to mupscale the video to a higher resolution during conversion, it reduces quality rather than improving it. Please have a look in the User Guide at chapter 10-11 on this, or simply click on the link "why is the resolution different" that is displayed when the conversion is running.
[Xoom General] Holsum:
so why have the option to manipulate it if you always code at the "optimal" resolution
[Xoom General] dvdcatalyst:
The setting is used as a maximum resolution. If you convert files that have a higher resolution than this, they will be resize to match.

In addition, if you use the 'remove black bars from device setting, the resolution speciied there will be used to calculate what needs to be done to the video to make it fit. even if the resolution of your dvd or video file is less, since the video player itself scales the video for you.
[Xoom General] android_geoff:
Thank you for coming onto the forums and posting help for everyone who had questions. I love using it and Ive recommended to all my friends with android phones because of its ease of use

Ill also make sure to set an annotation in my youtube video about things i missed or had misinformation

I wasnt sure if there was any blu ray converting I read on a couple post that it would work on about 80% of the videos but since blu ray needs a software update constantly that its hard to get them to work properly

i had 1 quaestion: If you own the retail version will you be able to automatically upgrade to the blu ray converter once out of beta or will it be a seperate program